Steven Soderbergh’s massive two-part epic (totaling five hours, though we are only able to screen the first part) on Che Guevara is perhaps just as noteworthy for what it isn’t as for what it is. Certainly, the clichés of the ‘biopic’ genre is of little interest to this most adventurous of filmmakers, and anyone hoping to learn more about the inner life of “The Argentinean” will be sorely disappointed, as will those who hope to have their revolutionary passions stirred yet again. Soderbergh’s bold refusal to indulge sentiment, romance or morality is in and of itself a remarkable achievement, and one that might have earned him an approving nod from Guevara himself.
Che: Part 1 primarily tells the story of the overthrow of the Batista dictatorship in Cuba in 1958. Given that everyone knows how it ends, Soderbergh focuses instead of how they went about it. He is certainly not the first director to find a kinship between filmmaking and warfare, and as he cuts into the myth of Che with a field surgeon’s dispassionate distance, Soderbergh proves himself as uncompromising as his protagonist. The result will surprise you at every turn.
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ORIGINAL TITLE
Che: Part One
ENGLISH TITLE
Che: Part One
SELECTION: Cinerama
COUNTRY: France, Spain, USA
LANGUAGE: Spanish and english
SUBTITLES: Norwegian
PROD. YEAR: 2008
RUNNING TIME: 126 minutes
DIRECTOR: Steven Soderbergh
WRITER: Peter Buchman
PRODUCER: Laura Bickford, Steven Soderbergh
PHOTO: Steven Soderbergh (som Peter Andrews)
PRODUCTION: Morena Films, Telecinco, Wildbunch
CAST: Benicio Del Toro, Julia Ormond, Rodrigo Santoro, Demián Bichir
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